What is the difference between massage, myotherapy and physiotherapy? This is a question that we get asked a lot, and one of our favourite questions to answer! Remedial Massage Remedial Massage therapists have training in manual techniques to reduce protective muscle guarding, pain and improve… Read more »
Is my Knee having a Heart Attack?
One of the hot areas of research into management of tendinopathies over the last five to ten years has been the use of topical Glyceryl Trinitrate (GTN) patches to manage pain during rehabilitation of tendinopathies, including Patella, Achilles, and Tennis elbow. This drug may sound… Read more »
Golfer’s Elbow – The lesser known “Elbow”
Golfers Elbow is known in the medical world as medial epicondylitis. It is exactly the same pathological process as tennis elbow, which is to say it is an enthesopathy (deterioration of the enthesis or the point where the tendon joins to the bone), but instead… Read more »
Total Ankle and Shoulder Replacements
We’ve all heard of Total Knee replacement and Total Hip replacement. These are incredibly successful surgeries, whose main goal is pain relief, that have been completed successfully for years for arthritic and damaged joints. What many people DON’T know is that arthritic ankles and shoulders… Read more »
Tricky Teeth
Do your teeth hurt, but a check up at the Dentist shows no problem? Is your jaw locking and you can’t open it? Stabbing headache in your forehead, or behind your eye? You may have a TMJ problem. With an asymmetric bite, stress related clenching… Read more »
Is Neck Cracking Safe?
High Velocity Thrust Techniques (HVTT) are known as “Manipulation” and are to be contrasted with “mobilisation” in which small bouncing type movements are utilised by the therapist to gradually increase joint range of movement. In HVTT a joint “cavitation” is often the result, which causes… Read more »
ACL Rupture and Repair
The Anterior Cruciate Ligament is the main support to the stability of the knee in a forwards direction, that is it stops the femur (thigh bone) from sliding off the tibia (shin). If ruptured, the knee often becomes unstable and results (apart from pain and… Read more »
Dehydration
Water is by far the most common substance in the human body, making up around 60% of mass in the average lean adult. During exercise, or hotter temperatures, the rate of water loss to the atmosphere can be as high as 2L/h and can exceed… Read more »
Morton’s Neuroma
A tribute to someone close to us. If you have burning pain in the end of your foot, often coupled with numbness and tingling, then there’s a possibility you have a Morton’s Neuroma. This painful problem is caused by pressure from the metatarsal bones squeezing… Read more »
Christmas Shopping
Some love it, some hate it, you can’t avoid it! The heady mix of unbridled consumerism, sparkling Christmas baubles, and the frenetic Brownian motion of the stressed out shopping public – You can almost smell it! Here are some tips to make sure you don’t… Read more »